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Multisite Binding of Drugs and Natural Products in an Entropically Favorable, Heteroleptic Receptor.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Carpenter, John P 
Nitschke, Jonathan R  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4060-5122

Abstract

The cavities of artificial receptors are defined by how their components fit together. The encapsulation of specific molecules can thus be engineered by considering geometric principles; however, intermolecular interactions and steric fit scale with receptor size, such that the ability to bind multiple guests from a specific class of compounds remains a current challenge. By employing metal-organic self-assembly, we have prepared a triangular prism from two different ligands that is capable of binding more than 20 different natural products, drugs, and steroid derivatives within its prolate cavity. Encapsulation inflates the host, enhancing its ability to bind other guests in peripheral pockets and thus enabling our system to bind combinations of different drug and natural product cargoes in different locations simultaneously. This new mode of entropically favorable self-assembly thus enables central encapsulation to amplify guest-binding events around the periphery of an artificial receptor.

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Keywords

Binding Sites, Entropy, Indole Alkaloids, Metalloporphyrins, Morphine Derivatives, Receptors, Artificial, Steroids, Zinc

Journal Title

J Am Chem Soc

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Journal ISSN

0002-7863
1520-5126

Volume Title

141

Publisher

American Chemical Society (ACS)

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Sponsorship
European Research Council (695009)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P027067/1)
European Commission (642192)
This work was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC EP/P027067/1) and the European Research Council (695009). We thank Cambridge Australia Scholarships (FJR) and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant 642192 (JPC) for Ph.D. funding.